Database | Bestor

Person

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet

Microbiologist, immunologist and Nobel laureate.

13/06/1870
06/04/1961 (Ixelles)

6 min.

Person

Julien Fautrez

Embryologist and anatomist.

09/06/1914 (Antwerp)
14/08/1996 (Ghent)

4 min.

Person

Julius MacLeod

Botanist and biologist.

19/02/1857 (Ostende)
03/05/1919 (Ghent)

2 min.

Person

Karel Maurice Nuyens

Physicist, mathematician and partisan. One of the creators of the first electron microscope in Belgium.

08/11/1901 (Brussels)
22/01/1970 (Uccle)

3 min.

Person

Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet

Mathematician, statistician and meteorologist. One of Belgium's most famous and influential scientists.

22/02/1796 (Ghent)
17/02/1874 (Brussels)

27 min.

Person

Louis Bouckaert

Mathematician and physicist.

02/01/1909 (Ostende)
27/01/1988 (Gistel)

4 min.

Person

Lucien Léon Hauman

Belgian botanist and professor.

06/06/1880 (Ixelles)
16/09/1965 (Brussels)

3 min.

Person

Léon Jacques Henri Constant Rosenfeld

Physicist and atomic scientist.

14/08/1904 (Charleroi)
23/05/1974 (Copenhagen)

4 min.

Person

Léon Maurice Crismer

Chemist and professor at the Royal Military Academy.

23/10/1858 (Stavelot)
25/06/1944 (Stavelot)

3 min.

Person

Marcel Florkin

Biochemist and historian of science.

15/08/1900 (Liège)
03/05/1979 (Liège)

5 min.

Institution

Museum of the History of Science

Institution dedicated to exhibiting the scientific academic heritage of Ghent University.

Ghent (Belgium)

6 min.

Person

Nicolas-Édouard Mailly

Astronomer and historian.

17/06/1810 (Brussels)
08/10/1891 (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode)

5 min.

Story

Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)

In 1819, Franz-Peter Cassel, professor of botany, made his rectoral address at the State University of Ghent an ardent plea for the study of the history of science.

Geert Vanpaemel

6 min.

Institution

Osiris

Washington (United States)

2 min.

Person

Paul Gustave Glansdorff

Engineer and physicist specialised in thermodynamics.

17/10/1904 (Saint-Gilles)
23/06/1999 (Uccle)

4 min.